Recessionista, Cohan, Flower
Meet the recession’s new creative class. The finance industry laid them off, but now they’re full-time artists. William Cohan’s account of Bear Stearns’ demise, House of Cards, tells us a lot about this tough time. “Flower,” a popular new videogame, just says no to guns. And deep in the Virginia woods, we go deer hunting with a poet.
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